Unexpectedly, I have found myself in the UK for several weeks, and the last few days have been an incredible mixture of crisp sunny days and intense thunder and lightening storms.
It is Autumn.
It is nearly H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N !
...and I am really excited!
I love Halloween. The colours, the creativity, the dressing up, the special effects make-up, the cooking, the planning. It takes over my mind far more than Christmas does. If i'm honest, I have been thinking about it for months!
Last year we were in Istanbul for Halloween and, although, we found a fantastic party to go to I couldn't find any pumpkins to carve - so I took the knife to a small round courgette. It was remarkably easy, and pretty effective once glowing spookily on the dining room table. 
Today, I have sat down with a cup of tea and started to plan my Halloween meal for this year. We are having friends over and I want everyone to really enjoy the evening and the morbid black food colouring! I'm going to make some decorations and, hopefully, i'll have time to drive to a small village in Kent that fills one of it's barns with pumpkins and gourds - an amazing array of goodies for cooking and carving. Anyway, I digress, as well as the party planning I am enjoying sketching out autumnal and halloween inspired illustrations….i'll post about them soon.
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| Halloween Frankie in his pumpkin hot- air balloon |
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